A terminally ill 14-year-old girl from London won a historic court case which will allow her body to be cryogenically frozen in the hope she will be one day brought back to life.

The girl's divorced parents have been in a dispute over whether their daughter's remains could be flown to a specialist facility in the US and preserved.

Suffering from a rare form of cancer, the teen asked a High Court judge to rule that only her mother could make decisions about the disposal of her body, as she backed the girl's wishes to be preserved.

Her father disagreed however, and was concerned about the consequences of being frozen.

'She may be left in a desperate situation'

He told High Court judge Mr Justice Peter Jackson: “Even if the treatment is successful and she is brought back to life in, let's say 200 years, she may not find any relative and she might not remember things.

“She may be left in a desperate situation – given that she is still only 14-years-old – and will be in the United States of America.”